. Canadian forest industries 1884. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 377 B L. Scott's mill, at Bad Axe, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000 to $4,000 ; no insurance. C. Withing & Sons consume 300 cords of birch wood yearly in their brush factory at Buckfield, Me. Hemlock bark at Saginaw, Mich., has drop ped in price from $8 a cord last year to $ this season. The salt manufacturers of Saginaw valley consume from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 of hoops annually, a large proportion of which are made in the v
. Canadian forest industries 1884. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. THE CANADA LUMBERMAN. 377 B L. Scott's mill, at Bad Axe, Mich., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $3,000 to $4,000 ; no insurance. C. Withing & Sons consume 300 cords of birch wood yearly in their brush factory at Buckfield, Me. Hemlock bark at Saginaw, Mich., has drop ped in price from $8 a cord last year to $ this season. The salt manufacturers of Saginaw valley consume from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 of hoops annually, a large proportion of which are made in the valley towns. I. A. Hank, the lumberman of Chase, Mich., is shipping maple logs in the rough to Glas gow, Scotland, to be used as rollers in the ex tensive paper mills of that city. A fire in Paine & Co.'s lumber yard, at Northern Pacific Junctiou, 25 miles west of Duluth, Minn., November 8th, destroyed 9 000,000 feet of lumber. Loss, $75,000; insur ance, $25,000. The sale of 3,000,000 feet of shipping box lumber in one lot, in the Albany, N. Y., market some time since, is said by the papers of that city to have increased the price $1 per thousand feet. The boiler of Noah Chrisher's barrel factory at Hudson, Mich., exploded Nov. 13. The boiler and engine were hurled into an adjoining dwelling and slightly injured a woman. Ben Chrisher was badly scalded. The boiler in Noah Chrisher's barrel factory at Hudson, Mich., exploded November 13, throwing itself and the engine across the street and into the side of a house. The engineer was slightly scalded. The route between St. Paul and Montreal by the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlan tic connecting with the Canadian Pacific at the Sault, will be 200 miles shorter than the present route by Chicago. The bark Saturnus, bound for Montevideo, with deals, has been frozen in at Grand Bay Saguenay. A tug made an unsuccessful at tempt to tow her out of the ice November 21st. and narrowly escaped being frozen in also Extemsive fores
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